An analysis of english compound words in an artticle of life and style column

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• INTRODUCTION
• FINDINGS AND DISCUSSIONS
• The word chairwoman above is formed from the words chair (N) and woman (N). Those words are from the same element that is a noun. It is formed by combining two free morphemes. Those are a nominal modifier and a nominal head. They show different types ...
• The further evidence of the compound noun in the first sentence is fashion week, as shown in the following analysis below.
• Chart 2. The analysis of compound word
• The word rainbow is formed by the words rain which is a noun, and bow is a noun. Thus, a rainbow is categorized into a compound noun in English. In this case, the rainbow is an example of an exocentric compound. This view is in line with Delahunty & G...
• Chart 9. The Analysis of Compound Word
• CONCLUSION
• REFERENCES